Our Medical School Sucks
Did you know our medical school sucks? Well, it does.
WaPo ran an article about it Thursday. The DCist explained the thought process behind sending Cheney to the only medical school on probation in the country. Why does our medical school suck so bad? Washington Post explains:
Committee co-secretary Dan Hunt of the Association of American Medical Colleges said that he could not talk about the specific areas of concern at GWU and that it was up to the school to decide whether to make the report public. GWU officials declined to release the report.
Oh, GWU refuses to say. Lets assume the worse. Here are my guesses:
- Our medical school doesn’t exist.
- Our medical school existed at one time but society found no need for it anymore.
- Our medical school exists but is disappointed at what we have all become and is waiting for the right moment to return to take only the truly devout medical students with it.
- Our medical school spends too much money on shopping plazas and not enough money on medical students.
Anyone know the truth behind this report?
The Final Debate
To continue the tradition of high quality mid-term content, I would like to discuss the final debate. Since I was studying, I was unable to watch the debate, so I want to know what you thought.
But more importantly, I want someone to tell me what the fuck is going on in these two pictures:
For the love of God, someone explain.
Cue link here from the Huffington Post in 5…4…
Cheney Released From GW Hospital
As midterms continue to eat Colonialist writers alive, we have to resort to posting real news. One-time Colonialist contributor and professional amateur photographer Greg Magee snapped the shot we all wanted. Dicky C on campus.
We also wanted to thank everyone for the large number of blog submissions we’ve been receiving! Keep them coming!
Good luck with Midterms. To better ensure you aren’t studying for them, here is our favorite time waster, BOOM SHINE. (Play with sound for best effect).
Life Imitating Art Imitating Life
“My Friends…” Look at the unbelievable parallels to the political discourse in this country right now:
FoBoGro Robbed at Gun Point
I was sitting in my basement watching King of Kong when I heard a woman yelling “STOP THAT MAN! STOP HIM!” I ran to my front door but when got outside, I couldn’t figure out what was going on. But then I found out:
At about 1:35 p.m., a black male, described by witnesses as in his thirties, attached a note to the door reading “Be Back in 10 Minutes” before placing a handgun on the counter and demanding money, said Metropolitan Police Department Sergeant John Mitchell.
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Jaime Molinelli, a veterinarian who lives in Baltimore, Md., said she heard the Foggy Bottom Grocery owner Meseret Bekel shouting from her shop’s door.
“I heard her screaming and I looked at him and said, ‘Hey, you!’ and he started running,” Molinelli said. “So I chased after him.”
This is crazy. I live a half-block from Foggy Bottom Grocery and it just serves as a reminder that we live in a dangerous, dangerous city. If you ever see a sign “Be Back in Ten Minutes” on my town house, come save me!
Write For The Colonialist!!
As promised in our first post of the year, we are offically opening up applications for sub-blogs here at The Colonialist. If you have been wanting to start a blog for a while, or have one and the readership is small, we want to help. We have the largest readership of any blog on campus and would make sure your posts are read.
We will also eventually be choosing the best and most dedicated sub-bloggers to begin writing for the main site, hoping they can take over for us when we leave in May.
If you are interested, fill out the application below and email it to us at TheColonialist@Gmail.com.
Your Name:
Year:
Activities/Groups/Clubs:
Relevant Experience (None is Required):
Phone Number:
Pitch Your Idea (One paragraph explaining what your blog would be about, eg. A blog to keep GW students up to date on all the bee-keeping news in the world.):
Short Post Example (Paragraph-long post example):
Long(er) Post Example (A post example of indetermined length):
We look forward to reading your applications! If you’ve got a friend that you think would be a good blogger for the site, make sure they know they can apply. It’s hard to get a strong readership for your site, even if you have great content. We want to help.
DON’T FUCK UP!
The Hatchet Agrees
In our post a few days ago explaining how to destroy Juicy Campus, we called on the Hatchet to take a stand against the site as well. While I’m disappointed by the fact they didn’t use the phrase “loosest pussy on campus,” this is from today’s paper:
We applaud the student life blogs the GW Patriot and the Colonialist for their campaign to undermine Juicy Campus. Their creative, funny initiative to spam the site by posting random, banal information in place of gossip is inspired and shows ingenuity.
General student reaction has been encouraging, as most students agree that the site needs to be rendered useless. Juicy Campus is alive and well on other university campuses, and we are genuinely pleased that GW students are showing strong character by calling for everyone to spam the site into impotence.
We are firmly against censorship - what sort of newspaper would we be if we were not against it? - but we stand with the efforts against the site.
Juicy Campus deserves to go under.
I continue to be surprised by how many people are helping us with this. I’ve maybe spent about fifteen of my own minutes working on this, but the site continues to be filled with our posts. We know that you’ve been slacking in the effort because of midterms, but thank the Hatchet by posting a few more pieces of poetry or Wikipedia articles right now. That includes you, Hatchet writers.
It only works if we keep it up.
[TRAVIS EDIT: I've been hearing from multiple sources that the SA is considering banning the website. This is absurd. No website should EVER be banned on our network. It is up to the student body whether or not they want to stop Juicy Campus, certainly not the Student Government.]
Now, I refuse to waste any more time talking about that shit-show of a website. Here is something way more important:
Hatchet Interview?
Hey y’all
Travis and I just engaged in a three minute interview with The Hat Shed regarding our Juicy Campus dadafunfest.
We didn’t really say much of anything because we were only asked two questions, so expect a quote along the lines of:
Campus blogs have issued a call to clutter the site by posting everything from Wikipedia articles to poems by TS Eliot to fight the gossip. This reporter spoke to two of the four Colonialist (a student blog) writers, who said, “we decided to post information that were more interesting and had the same or more informational value as the unverifiable gossip already there.” When asked why they chose to spam Juicy, they said, “People are profiting from this communal negativity and we don’t think that’s right, so we’re reacting to it.” The writers also expressed concerns about the claim that posts are made anonymously, citing two students at other universities who had been arrested for posts made on the site.
How’s my journalism impression?
We’re spamming the site is because the site is spamming our lives.
That One
Charlie On Parole World Premeire!
It's tough on the outside.
Hey guys,
This Saturday, at 10:30pm in the Marvin Center Ampitheater, we will have our very first screening of the final cut of Charlie On Parole. Tickets will be $5 at the door. Check out the Facebook Event!
Paul Briganti (the non-GW branch of beast.Films as well as the co-director), Kevin, and I will be there to show the (Short, 25 minute) film, as well as other videos, outtakes, deleted scenes and extra footage. It will be a lot of fun.
The short film stars GW alum, TJ Miller, and features GW Alum Emily Axford (Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, Colbert Report), Joe Wengert (Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater), and Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live).
Some of you may have seen our rough cut screening last spring. Since then, the film has grown exponentially, and we have been able to use the experience and feedback from that screening to create a final product we are very proud of. We have spent the last year working extremely hard on this project and putting everything we have into it. We want nothing more than for as many people as possible to see it, and hopefully, to enjoy it.
You can check out the facebook event, film website, or beast.Films website for more info.
Here is the trailer!
http://www.vimeo.com/1440895
(if the HD version is giving you trouble, try watching the non-HD version)
